Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen fought Su Qingyin’s five Ninth Grade Perfection spirit insects and then asked her how to help his Spirit Devouring Insect advance. Su Qingyin explained that its mixed bloodlines made evolution difficult and outlined three methods, including a Blood Sacrifice Gu.

• Su Qingyin sent her Spirit Sword Insect to test Lu Chen, and its horn pierced his defense before he forced the sword aura from his wound.
• Su Qingyin unleashed her Cold Flood Dragon Gu, Blood Centipede, and Mountain Shattering Toad, but Lu Chen drove them back with his sword and flames, then expelled the centipede’s poison.
• Su Qingyin apologized and gave Lu Chen an antidote, while he recognized the strength of her complementary spirit insects and asked about becoming an Insect Master.
• Lu Chen showed Su Qingyin his Spirit Devouring Insect and asked how to help it undergo Transcending Spirit Transformation; she fed it a pill and suppressed its violent reaction.
• Su Qingyin diagnosed the insect’s mixed bloodlines and described transplantation, crossbreeding, and Blood Sacrifice Gu as possible ways to evolve them.

Lu Chen hired Su Qingyin to cultivate his Spirit Devouring Insects, then entered the Ascension Dragon Gate and earned a Golden Dragon Token. Xiao Xiao also earned a Golden Dragon Token and Mu Chen a White Flood Dragon Token, and the trio entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace before setting off for the Fire Palace.

• Lu Chen learned that the Blood Sacrifice Gu was a forbidden Spirit Insect Race creation and paid Su Qingyin three million Sovereign Spiritual Liquids to cultivate his Spirit Devouring Insects.
• Xiao Xiao entered the Ascension Dragon Gate first, followed by Lu Chen and Mu Chen.
• Lu Chen defeated a Golden Dragon Disciple with his Azure Lightning Force and received a Golden Dragon Token.
• Xiao Xiao emerged with a Golden Dragon Token, while Mu Chen earned a White Flood Dragon Token.
• Lu Chen, Xiao Xiao, and Mu Chen used their tokens to enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace and agreed to visit the Fire Palace before the Dragon Palace.
• Lu Chen led the trio toward the Fire Palace, where he hoped to obtain a fire-attributed sacred relic.

Lu Chen, Xiao Xiao, and Mu Chen entered the Fire Palace and defeated the corrupted Master of the Fire Palace with a trap and Lu Chen’s Purple-Gold Fire Lotuses. The Master’s clear spirit then passed on the Crimson Dragon Bow to Lu Chen before disappearing.

• Mu Chen opened the Spirit Array around the Stone Island and the crimson great hall, allowing Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao to enter.
• Lu Chen recognized that the silent figure on the throne was hiding his corruption, and Mu Chen prepared to activate the hall’s defensive Spirit Array.
• The corrupted Master of the Fire Palace attacked, but Mu Chen’s chains held him long enough for Lu Chen’s five Purple-Gold Fire Lotuses to strike.
• Lu Chen pulled Xiao Xiao out of the hall before the explosion, then released her wrist and exchanged teasing remarks with her and Mu Chen.
• Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao returned to find the Master’s evil energy gone; he gave Lu Chen the Crimson Dragon Bow and vanished.

Lu Chen defeated Zhu Yan with a single sword strike, took his sacred spear, and continued exploring the Nine Palaces with Xiao Xiao and Mu Chen. After the group divided the sacred artifacts they had found, Mu Chen began refining the Wind God Fan while Lu Chen started another simulation.

• Lu Chen confronted Zhu Yan, who challenged him over Xiao Xiao's connection to Emperor Yan and attacked with a sacred spear.
• Lu Chen overwhelmed Zhu Yan with crystallized spiritual energy, forced him to surrender the spear, and warned him not to provoke him again.
• Several days later, Lu Chen and his companions finished exploring five of the Nine Palaces and divided their sacred artifacts, with Mu Chen choosing the Wind God Fan.
• Mu Chen began refining the Wind God Fan in a pool of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid while Xiao Xiao stood guard and Lu Chen prepared to cultivate.
• Lu Chen silently began a new simulation after a month had passed since he left the Da Luo Territory.

After defeating the Martial Ancestor in the simulation, Lu Chen chose the Fleeting Shadow divine power and set out to find the Scripture Pavilion. Inside, he negotiated to exchange Fleeting Shadow for the first realm of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, then offered an Insect Control Heart Sutra for the Second Hall Master's inheritance.

• Lu Chen chose Fleeting Shadow from the simulation's rewards and received its knowledge.
• Mu Chen finished refining the Wind God Fan, and Lu Chen, Mu Chen, and Xiao Xiao prepared to leave the Wind Palace.
• Lu Chen used the Azure Jade Slip to enter the hidden Scripture Pavilion, which agreed to trade the first realm of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities for Fleeting Shadow.
• Lu Chen asked whether the Second Hall Master had been an Insect Master and learned that the Scripture Pavilion held his inheritance.
• Lu Chen offered an Earthly Supreme-level Insect Control Heart Sutra for the Second Hall Master's inheritance, and the Scripture Pavilion agreed to the trade.

Lu Chen received the Ephemera Dragon Rearing Scripture and the Heavenly Emperor’s insights into One Qi Transforms into Three Purities in the Scripture Pavilion, then headed with Xiao Xiao and Mu Chen to the Heaven River. There, he confronted Garuda, who planned to join forces with others to capture Mu Chen and Xiao Xiao, and Lu Chen prepared to meet them in battle.

• Lu Chen obtained the Quasi-Heavenly Supreme-level Ephemera Dragon Rearing Scripture and received the Heavenly Emperor’s cultivation insights into One Qi Transforms into Three Purities.
• Lu Chen reunited with Xiao Xiao and Mu Chen, announced that he was ready to undergo his spirit tribulation, and led them toward the Heaven River.
• Mu Chen set up the Profound Origin Heavy Water Array flags as a shelter before Lu Chen and the others reached the Heaven River.
• At the Heaven River, Lu Chen spotted Xia Hong and Xia Yu, then saw Zhu Yan arrive with Garuda, who revealed his interest in capturing Mu Chen.
• Garuda and Lu Chen traded taunts, but Zhu Yan persuaded Garuda to delay their fight so they could gather Xia Yu and Su Qingyin to help capture Mu Chen and Xiao Xiao.
• Lu Chen watched Garuda withdraw his aura and privately resolved to confront their group in a few days.

Lu Chen recruited Su Qingyin into the Da Luo Territory by giving her a cultivation scroll she and her master had sought, then entered the Heavenly River as its seal opened. After gathering a thousand Heavenly River Spirits, he discovered they could fuse together and began forming an enormous spirit for an extraordinary baptism.

• Su Qingyin arrived at the Heavenly River, and Lu Chen offered her the dark red cultivation scroll in exchange for serving the Da Luo Territory and cultivating spirit insects for thirty years; she accepted.
• The Heavenly River seal opened, and Lu Chen, Mu Chen, Su Qingyin, and Xiao Xiao entered the river.
• Lu Chen warned Mu Chen that he could not capture Heavenly River Spirits, and Mu Chen stayed behind to cultivate while Lu Chen searched the depths.
• Over the next half month, Lu Chen gathered a thousand Heavenly River Spirits and resolved to attempt a baptism beyond the perfect grade.
• Lu Chen discovered that Heavenly River Spirits devoured and fused with one another, then combined a hundred into a blazing spirit and fed it nine hundred more, creating a sphere of light about a thousand feet wide.

During his Heaven River Baptism, Lu Chen broke through to the Earthly Supreme realm and surged to the late stage of the Upper Earth Sovereign realm. As a spirit tribulation descended, he fought off its first eight bolts and prepared his Pagoda Godly Imprint to face the final shapeshifting lightning dragon.

• Lu Chen drew an enormous Heaven River Baptism and used the Phoenix Flame Flower and Nine Revolutions Azure Lotus to help shatter his Supreme Sea and enter the Earthly Supreme realm.
• Lu Chen consumed Spirit God Liquids and the Nether God World-Extinguishing Flame, reaching the late stage of the Upper Earth Sovereign realm as Garuda and Zhu Yan watched in alarm.
• A spirit tribulation gathered above the Heavenly River, and Lu Chen summoned two late-stage Upper Earth Sovereign clones with One Qi Transforms into Three Purities.
• Lu Chen and his clones used the Sky Phoenix Divine Seal, a spear, and an arrow to destroy the first three lightning bolts, then Lu Chen used the Pagoda Transformation and the Crimson Dragon Bow with the Flame Ancestral Symbol to destroy five more.
• A black lightning dragon formed as the final bolt, and Lu Chen's Heavenly Flame Celestial Body began gathering the Pagoda Godly Imprint to meet it.

Lu Chen defeated the black thunder dragon with Fleeting Shadow, then learned that Zhu Yan and the others had gone to the Heavenly Emperor's Mausoleum, where a weakened Heavenly Demon Emperor could devour them and regain strength. Unable to convince them to turn back or summon Emperor Yan, Lu Chen sent his companions to gather allies and delay the group while he prepared to confront the threat.

• Lu Chen used the Peerless Divine Power Fleeting Shadow to shatter the black thunder dragon, then captured it inside the Flame Ancestral Symbol and began recovering his spiritual energy.
• Xiao Xiao told Lu Chen that the other geniuses had left for the Heavenly Emperor's Mausoleum, and Su Qingyin revealed that Zhu Yan, Garuda, Xia Yu, and others planned to summon their factions' Upper Earthly Supremes.
• Lu Chen warned Xiao Xiao, Mu Chen, and Su Qingyin that the Heavenly Demon Emperor inside the mausoleum could devour the arriving Earthly Supremes, and Su Qingyin's message failed to persuade Zhu Yan and the others to stop.
• Lu Chen and Xiao Xiao discussed whether Emperor Yan could be contacted, but Xiao Xiao had no way to summon him; Lu Chen then persuaded her to lend him the final transformation of the Heavenly Flame Three Transformations.
• Lu Chen sent Mu Chen to help the Territory Lord recover her strength, Su Qingyin to retrieve the Phoenix Insect, and Xiao Xiao to delay Zhu Yan's group at the mausoleum while he prepared additional methods.

Zhu Yan and Garuda arrived at the Heavenly Emperor’s Mausoleum with the powerful rulers of the Tianluo Continent, where a Demon Emperor possessed the Heavenly Emperor’s remains and turned on them. As the Demon Emperor attacked Xiao Xiao, an unknown young voice broke through the barrier and challenged him.

• Garuda summoned Lu Heng and the other major powers’ leaders into the Heavenly Emperor’s Mausoleum, where they found the Heavenly Emperor’s remains and Crystal Longsword.
• The gathered experts rushed to claim the remains and began slaughtering weaker cultivators, while Garuda betrayed Zhu Yan, took his Divine Soul, and crushed it.
• Xiao Xiao revealed a recording of Garuda admitting the Saint Demon Palace was allied with the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, and Lu Heng confirmed their trap as a black barrier sealed the mausoleum.
• The Heavenly Demon Emperor awakened through the remains, devoured Earthly Supremes to grow stronger, and repelled the experts’ attempt to seize the Heavenly Emperor Sword.
• The Demon Emperor attacked Xiao Xiao, but a crystal wall shielded her after someone shattered part of the barrier and challenged him.

Lu Chen arrived at the Heavenly Emperor's Mausoleum and fought the Devouring Heavenly Demon Emperor while Mandala evacuated Xiao Xiao and the other Earthly Supremes. After Lu Chen unleashed his Thunder Punishment Heavenly Eye, the Emperor began the Devouring Demon Transformation and rapidly increased his power.

• Lu Chen appeared at the mausoleum, gave Mandala an Ancient Mandala Flower, and sent her with Xiao Xiao and the others to seek reinforcements.
• The Devouring Heavenly Demon Emperor shattered Lu Chen's barrier, but Lu Chen countered with his Heavenly Flame Celestial Body and a crystal arrow that the Emperor caught and turned into a demonic weapon.
• Lu Chen blocked the Emperor's demonic arrow with Immeasurable Golden Light and One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, revealing himself as the successor of the Emperor's old enemy.
• The Devouring Heavenly Demon Emperor created the Devouring Heaven Destroying World Hand and transformed Lu Heng and Garuda into demonic creatures.
• Lu Chen unleashed the Thunder Punishment Heavenly Eye, destroying the demonic hand, but the Emperor began Devouring Demon Transformation and raised his aura to Heavenly Supreme.

Lu Chen fought the Devouring Heavenly Demon Emperor with the Heavenly Emperor Sword, exhausting his methods and sacrificing himself to wound the Demon Emperor. Just as the Demon Emperor prepared to finish him, a black-robed man arrived and destroyed the attack, while Xiao Xiao rushed to Lu Chen’s side.

• Lu Chen summoned the Heavenly Emperor Sword and attacked the Devouring Heavenly Demon Emperor, but the Demon Emperor evaded the strike and blasted Lu Chen into the ground.
• After his Heavenly Flame Three Transformations ended, Lu Chen fought on, shattered the Devouring Demon Pearl, and self-destructed to injure the Demon Emperor.
• Lu Chen survived by using the Phoenix Insect, but it was weakened, and he refused the Demon Emperor’s offer to join the Extraterritorial Race.
• As the Demon Emperor unleashed a colossal demonic finger, a black-robed man appeared beside Lu Chen and erased the attack with flames.
• Xiao Xiao emerged from the void and checked on Lu Chen, then scolded the black-robed man for watching the fight instead of intervening.

Emperor Yan defeated and sealed the Devouring Heavenly Demon Emperor, then gave Lu Chen a lamp that would summon his aid. He freed the Heavenly Emperor’s surviving spirit, who recognized Lu Chen’s cultivation of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities and asked about it.

• Emperor Yan introduced himself and destroyed the Devouring Heavenly Demon Emperor’s eight demonic maws with his Wrath of Buddha Fire Lotus.
• Emperor Yan trapped the Demon Emperor’s escaping essence in a flaming barrier and vaporized it when the demon tried to self-destruct.
• Emperor Yan teased Xiao Xiao about marrying Lu Chen, gave Lu Chen an ancient lamp for summoning help, and encouraged the two to spend time together.
• Emperor Yan revealed that the black head in the mountain was a disguise hiding the Heavenly Emperor’s remains, then used flames to free the Heavenly Emperor’s spirit.
• The Heavenly Emperor thanked Emperor Yan for his aid and asked Lu Chen whether he had cultivated One Qi Transforms into Three Purities to the Threefold Realm.

The Heavenly Emperor passed the complete One Qi Transforms into Three Purities to Lu Chen, made him master of the Ancient Heavenly Palace, and entrusted Mandala to his protection before his remnant spirit vanished. Lu Chen left with Mandala, the Heavenly Emperor Sword, and two captured traitors, heading back to the Da Luo Territory.

• The Heavenly Emperor accepted Lu Chen as his disciple and passed on the complete One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, while Emperor Yan departed with Xiao Xiao after teasing her about finding a husband.
• Lu Chen cultivated in the Heaven River under the Heavenly Emperor’s guidance, refined his spiritual energy, and sent his two avatars to strengthen their foundations.
• The Heavenly Emperor gave Lu Chen the Heavenly Emperor Sword and entrusted Mandala to his protection before fading away; Mandala told Lu Chen that the Da Luo Territory awaited them.
• Lu Chen brought the crippled Lu Heng and Garuda with him, intending to execute Lu Heng publicly and give Garuda’s Dharma Body origin to Mu Chen.
• The Heavenly Emperor Sword acknowledged Lu Chen as its master and fused into a mark on his hand, and Lu Chen followed Mandala through a spatial passage toward the Da Luo Territory.

After the Ancient Heavenly Palace crisis, Lu Chen accepted gifts from Tianluo Continent’s leading forces and proposed uniting them into the Tianluo Alliance to resist the Extraterritorial Evil Clan. When the leaders warned that the alliance needed a Quasi-Heavenly Supreme to stand against rival powers, Lu Chen revealed that he had reached that level himself.

• Lu Chen received the visiting leaders’ gratitude and accepted their gifts, including Supreme Breakthrough Pills and a Quasi-Heavenly Supreme True Dragon Bone.
• Lu Chen proposed founding the Tianluo Alliance because Tianluo Continent’s divided forces were vulnerable to the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• The Xia Emperor and the Primordial Sect’s Sect Master explained that powerful super forces backed the regional hegemonic forces and that the alliance would need a Quasi-Heavenly Supreme.
• Lu Chen used the Heavenly Flame Three Transformations and merged his black and white avatars to reveal his Quasi-Heavenly Supreme strength.

Lu Chen persuaded the leading factions to join the Tianluo Alliance by promising access to the Heavenly Palace’s Divine Power Hall and Heaven River, and laid out a plan to expand the alliance’s power. He left the leaders ready to discuss the alliance’s structure and the division of the Saint Demon Palace.

• Lu Chen revealed the strength of his merged clones and proposed making the Northern Domain the Tianluo Alliance’s foothold by forcing out a weaker hegemonic force.
• Lu Chen offered the factions access to the Divine Power Hall and Heaven River, and the Primordial Sect, Sword Immortal Sect, Hidden Dragon Pavilion, and other leaders pledged their support.
• Lu Chen produced Lu Heng, the Saint Demon Palace Master, and burned him to ashes for colluding with the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• Lu Chen declared that the alliance would oppose the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, and the faction leaders affirmed their commitment to that purpose.
• Lu Chen began discussions about the alliance’s arrangements and how to divide the Saint Demon Palace.

Lu Chen established the Tianluo Alliance’s headquarters in the Ancient Heavenly Palace and prepared the alliance for a future clash with the Purple Cloud Sect. Jiuyou passed an Earthly Supreme lightning tribulation, then teased Lu Chen about his closeness with Xiao Xiao and drew him into an intimate moment.

• Lu Chen opened a spatial rift to the Ancient Heavenly Palace, named it the Tianluo Alliance headquarters, and set the Ascension Dragon Gate as a trial for disciples seeking rewards.
• After three days, Lu Chen learned that only Xia Yu had earned Dragon Token status, offered him a cultivation reward, and gave Su Qingyin a Supreme Breakthrough Pill.
• Lu Chen sensed Jiuyou’s lightning tribulation at Flame Pool Peak and sent the Flame Ancestral Symbol to help her withstand its final strike.
• Jiuyou survived the tribulation and broke through to the Earthly Supreme realm.
• Jiuyou questioned Lu Chen about Xiao Xiao, accepted his explanation, and invited him to show his affection.

Lu Chen simulated his future, where he entered the Fire Domain Tournament, eventually reached the Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme realm, and died fighting the Extraterritorial Evil Clan. After choosing the Ice Soul Cold Flame, he received a message from Xiao Xiao, who had broken through to the Earthly Supreme realm and urged him to come take her away.

• Lu Chen studied the Ephemera Dragon Rearing Scripture and considered how to strengthen the Spirit Devouring Insect's bloodline.
• Lu Chen simulated a future in which he joined the Fire Domain Tournament, lost to Liu Feng, and later formed a close relationship with Xiao Xiao.
• Lu Chen's simulated future took him through breakthroughs, battles, and the discovery of the Ice Soul Cold Flame before he died fighting Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Lu Chen chose the Ice Soul Cold Flame from the simulation's rewards.
• Xiao Xiao contacted Lu Chen, told him she had reached the Earthly Supreme realm, and asked him to reach the Heavenly Supreme realm and come take her away.

Lu Chen found a sealed demon site beneath Thunder Demon Abyss and discovered the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s peerless sacred artifact, though its lightning seal destroyed his white-robed clone. After restoring the clone and reaching Quasi-Heavenly Supreme strength, he prepared to visit the inheritance site with Mandala.

• Lu Chen searched Thunder Demon Abyss with a map fragment and opened a hidden space after drawing out a sealed Demon Emperor remnant soul.
• Lu Chen sent his white-robed clone into the space, where it found a peerless sacred artifact above a lake of Netherworld Heart Demon Lightning.
• The silver lightning seal struck and destroyed the white-robed clone, which returned its memories to Lu Chen before the entrance was sealed.
• Lu Chen restored the white-robed clone over several days, then combined his clones and used Heavenly Flame Three Transformations to reach Quasi-Heavenly Supreme.
• Mandala identified the artifact as the Supreme Heart Demon Seal and opened a passage so she and Lu Chen could inspect the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s inheritance site.

Lu Chen and Mandala entered Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s inheritance site and fought through its self-repairing Netherworld Thundercloud Formation to reach the Supreme Heart Demon Seal. Lu Chen defeated its lightning guardian and agreed to help find Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s remnant soul, after which the seal acknowledged him as its master.

• Lu Chen and Mandala descended into Thunder Demon Abyss and entered the hidden space filled with Netherworld Heart Demon Lightning.
• Mandala explained that the Netherworld Thundercloud Formation fed on intruders’ inner demons, and Lu Chen cleared a path toward Thunder Lake, where the Supreme Heart Demon Seal rested.
• A giant lightning spirit attacked Lu Chen, but he used the Pagoda Godly Imprint to turn it into a crystal statue.
• Lu Chen learned that the seal distrusted him because the Heavenly Emperor’s followers had opposed Heart Demon Thunder Emperor, then persuaded it to cooperate against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• The Supreme Heart Demon Seal demanded that Lu Chen help find Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s remnant soul and aid his rebirth, and Lu Chen agreed.
• The Supreme Heart Demon Seal flew to Lu Chen and acknowledged him as its master.